“: An Existential Blueprint”
(Panel No. 1 / The Blueprint Document)
Series: Sounds of Clyde: The Blueprint Exhibition Medium: Acrylic on Plywood Dimensions: 121 cm x 42 cm x 0.5 cm (Panel Dimensions)
(Panel No. 2 / The Blueprint Document)
Series: Sounds of Clyde: The Blueprint Exhibition Medium: Acrylic on Plywood Dimensions: 121 cm x 42 cm x 0.5 cm (Panel Dimensions)
This painting is a core component of the artist’s Polyptych series, Sounds of Clyde: The Blueprint Exhibition. It functions as a Document of Conflict, translating the systemic legal and social complexities of local resource ownership into abstract Visual Code.
Conceptual Architecture
The work originates from an inquiry into the “clash of entire systems” surrounding the Clyde—specifically, the friction between singular, ancestral claims to land and water rights and the modern reality of fractional, dissolved ownership. The painting is the unassailable record of the artist’s intense Transform process, where a local issue is forced to reveal its universal, existential truth.
Formal Execution & The Managed Process
The piece is a study in tension, defined by extreme layering and deliberate aesthetic conflict. Murky depths of black and teal (representing the deep, historical foundation of the Clyde) are violently interrupted by highly saturated, kinetic reds and sharp lime greens—the raw energy of confrontation.
Crucially, the surface bears the scars of the scraping—a philosophical act of Release that removed the artist’s initial aesthetic resistance. This removal allows a faint, disciplined grid to be imposed, symbolizing the futile human need to categorize and structure the un-categorizable complexity of modern financial and legal architecture. The work embodies the artist’s philosophy that the painting’s value is derived from the rigorous process of finding truth, not simple aesthetic beauty.
